No high for flying as Africa air traffic down by 88.5%
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that passenger demand in September remained highly depressed. It revealed this week that the total demand (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) was 72.8% below September 2019 levels, which was a slight improvement over the 75.2% year-to-year decline recorded in August.
The organisation also stated that capacity was down 63% compared to a year ago and load factor fell 21.8 percentage points to 60.1%.
IATA said in a statement that international passenger demand in September plunged 88.8% compared to September 2019, basically unchanged from the 88.5% decline recorded in August.
Domestic demand in September was down 43.3% compared to the previous year, improved from a 50.7% decline in August. Compared to 2019, capacity fell 33.3% and the load factor dropped 12.4 percentage points to 69.9%.
